When I worked in social work it was a fact that the courts were in favour of keeping children in thier own homes with support, some families had some worker in their house almost 24/7 very costly , I remember working with an extremely difficult family that on paper did all the bad things re children, the children were quiet and very sweet, dare not breath without permission, however, they were re homed in a specially converted house due to disabilities, that's only one family, and over 5 years ago, I still am in touch with all my SS friends and things have not changed too much so, , not much funding to take children into care at all, I am sure they will re open some children's homes that were previously closed down, sometimes better sometimes worse. As for babies being taken early, not so many I worked with did, the at risk parents usualy had parenting clasess and assessments, one of my jobs and often who they were most people would not trust them with thier dogs let alone a child, but it was the aime to keep them with their parent, usualy and often something drastic then happened when they child had developed behaviour issues so then were taken into care, I used to support a family that in the end had them all taken into care for using thier own prescription drugs to knock them out at night, ending up in one baby going into accident and emergency nearly dead!!
As for wealth, that's something that we have been indoctrinated to have, rather than it being natural trait in people, INCLUDING ME, we should not want so much but manage on what they have, it's a throw away society that a lot of people on this forum are trying not to comply with, how many times do we have to replace stuff like TV’s, washing machines, phones, bathrooms and kitchens etc? how many pairs of shoes (willies) do we need?
I was not too pleased when my daughter bought her council house, never been a fan of people being able to buy them at reduced rates, but, in monetary terms it was a good deal, especially as it had a huge garden and in a very posh village, council houses are for people how cannot afford to buy, for us, renting a house would be more expensive than buying one…like I said, ideally we Excluding a few like Rusty, have to many wants but may be replacing them with needs in years to come!
